Occasionally, my brain starts working...

[aged-crone.livejournal.com]

I'm reading ACoK again, and came across something that hadn't registered before. One of Sophos' fellow slaves asks his name.

"I thought before I answered. Wisdom is not a name for a slave. Stone, Mark, Faithful, Strong are slave names."

This time, it made me giggle. Because I had just noticed that there's an article about MWT on Wikipedia, and read it. Before, I had forgotten: MWT's husband's name is Mark.

:)

Comments

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

:D That's funny!

I never noticed, it looks a bit out of place because it doesn't obviously mean anything like the others

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

Eek!

Yes, it doesn't fit with the others.

No, it DOES obviously mean something, or several things. I've lived with it for 62 years.

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

Ha! What a find, Lesley!

My two reactions;

Now, in my head it's playing that "'Which of theses is not like the other's'song"

and

Aweeeeee <3

[elle-winters.livejournal.com]

Oh and entirely random note; my social psychology professor says people tend to marry other people who have the same letter first name. While I didn't agree with this at first (I'd like to believe we're a bit more creative than that-not to say it can happen conincidentally-as opposed to him saying we do it purposefully, are are only subconsciously)....I just noticed:

Megan, Mark

anyone else share letters?

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

Me! Both my parent's names start with a "D." And the other ironic thing, is that my mother's first husband had a name starting with a "J," and my mother often went by her middle name which also started with a "J."

My middle sister's first husband had a name that started with the same letter as her's too... I'm seeing a pattern here.

[ballerina-222.livejournal.com]

That's really funny! I think I remember noticing that in aCoK, but I didn't really think about that. Oh MWT.

[attackfish.livejournal.com]

My parents are Elizabeth and William, but they go by Beth and Bill. Actually, growing up, our neighbors on either side had married couples with rhyming names, and on the other side of one of those neighbors was a couple whose first names alliterated.

mark

[sclerotia.livejournal.com]

Mark means something--as in "question mark", "check mark", "make your mark".

[emerald-happy.livejournal.com]

LOL!

[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Yes! Mr. checkers' name and mine both start with the same letter, and my sister and her husband both have names that start with the same letter. Weird!

[chubbyleng.livejournal.com]

Hmm... must be a cultural thing? Now that I look back and think about it, not a single couple I know have first letters of their names match.

...Nope. Not a single one. Even in my family, and relatives and relatives of my extended family. Strange.

[bookaddict88.livejournal.com]

My aunt and uncle are Janet and John. Can't think of anyone else, though.

Re: mark

[bookaddict88.livejournal.com]

When I was reading it, I thought of "mark" as in a brand that slaves might have burned into them by their owners. But yes, it's not as obviously a "slave name" as the others! And I hadn't known that MWT is married to a Mark!

[booksrgood4u.livejournal.com]

I can't think of anyone off the top of my head!

Re: mark

[bisaxtorph.livejournal.com]

"Mark" is the Scandinavian (Danish) word for "field" - so I have always associated the name with that meaning, but as far as I can see, "Mark" apparently comes from Latin meaning "hammer" but in connection with MARS so it must have something to do with power and strength and not the tool as such... And then we are back to the fact that the name doesn't fit in with the others...